January 7, 1815Bayard leaves Ghent for Paris
where he will arrive on January 11, 1815.

January 8, 1815The
Battle of New Orleans
is fought because news of the peace treaty
didn't travel fast enough. The US win this battle. More than 300
people are killed in this battle for a war that was already over.

January 11, 1815Bayard
arrives at Paris. He stays put for the
moment because the U.S. and Britain have
also agreed to negotiate a treaty of
commerce.

January 13, 1815A
British force overwhelms 116 US
regulars at
Point Peter, Georgia, destroying the fort and barracks.

January 15, 1815HMS
Endymion, Tenedos, Pomone
vs. USS President. The President
has to surrender.

January 13, 1815A British force overwhelms 116 US regulars at
Point Peter, Georgia, destroying the fort and barracks.

February 8, 1815News of the peace
treaty at Ghent arrives in North America.

February 11, 1815
Second Battle of Fort Bowyer.
After a light skirmish, U.S. Major William
Lawrence and his 375 troops surrender to 5,000 British
troops on land and surrounding British
warships. The British capture the fort.

Shortly afterward, the artist John Rubens Smith
(who lived 1775-1849) took ink and watercolor
and illustrated the end of this war as follows:

PeaceLibrary of
Congress

The Library of Congress explains further:

In an allegory of the Treaty of Ghent,
signed on Dec. 24, 1814, Britannia and
America hold olive branches before an altar.
Sailors, holding British and American flags,
hold an uninscribed banner; through drapes
and pillars a dove flies out of a triangle.

February 20, 1815USS Constitution vs. HMS
Cyane and Levant. Both British ships
surrender to U.S. Capt.
Charles Stewart.

March 4, 1815Bayard is still at Paris, waiting for
further development for negotiations of a treaty
of commerce with Britain. Unfortunately for him,
today he gets ill and won't recover.

March 23, 1815USS Hornet vs. HMS Penguin.
The Penguin surrenders.

April 15, 1815Dartmoor Prison Massacre

May 10, 1815Bayard leaves Paris for Plymouth via
Havre.

May 14, 1815Bayard arrives at Plymouth, ready to
sail back to the States. But his ship won't set sail
for another five weeks.

June 30, 1815USS Peacock vs. Nautilus.
U.S. "victory." This encounter takes place in
the Sunda Strait off Anyer, Java, Indonesia.

The
Peacock demands surrender, the Nautilus,
a brig sailing for the East India Company, refuses
and claims the war had ended. The Peacock thought
this to be trickery and attacks. The Nautilus
immediately surrenders.

Casualties on the Nautilus: 6 killed, several
wounded. Lt. Charles Boyce, commander of the
Nautilus, will lose his leg.

July 3, 1815A treaty of commerce is concluded between the United States and Great Britain.
Officially, it is A Convention to Regulate the Commerce between the
Territories of The United States and of His Britannick Majesty.

For the U.S. signed John Quincy Adams, Albert
Gallatin, and Henry Clay; for Britain Frederick John Robinson, Henry Goulburn,
and William Adams.

July 4, 1815Clay leaves London for Liverpool. Gallatin is just
a little bit behind and will follow shortly.

July 23, 1815Clay and Gallatin sail on the Lorenzo from
Liverpool. They will arrive in New York on September 1, 1815.

July 31, 1815A very ill Bayard arrives back in the
States and disembarks at Wilmington in
Delaware.

August 6, 1815James
Asheton Bayard, moderate Federalist
from Delaware and one of the signatories to the
Treaty of Ghent, dies nine days after his
forty-eighth birthday.